They smile in your face, all the time they want to take your place, the Facebook Resisters

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/technology/shunning-facebook-and-...

I swear I didn't write this ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Zoetrope on December 14, 2011 at 1:35pm

"How come I didn't get invited to yr party, Bob?"

"I tried to message you on facebook but you weren't on there."

"But you have my phone number..."

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Permalink Reply by Jared on December 14, 2011 at 1:42pm

I wonder if people were having similar conversations when telephones first came out?

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Permalink Reply by Tony Adams 6.6 mi on December 14, 2011 at 1:59pm

That is a sloppy analogy. The internet in general can be compared (sort of) to the phone system, but not facebook.

Jared said:

I wonder if people were having similar conversations when telephones first came out?

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Permalink Reply by Liz on December 14, 2011 at 2:03pm

If you start a facebook account with limited information from a dummy email and use an incognito google chrome window, you wont be sharing any information. Google+ has a lot of loopholes in their privacy policy..

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-06/29/google-facebook-priv...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/20/google-vs-facebook_n_97208...

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Permalink Reply by Zoetrope on December 14, 2011 at 2:13pm

Yeah, let me just fire up the ol' VPN so that I can get on facebook and share a random thought and cat picture with all my best "friends."

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Permalink Reply by Minh on December 14, 2011 at 3:05pm

Google+ ? What's that?

You can find me on Friendster.

James BlackHeron said:

James doesn't do facebook.

You'll find me on Google+

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Permalink Reply by h' 1.0 on December 14, 2011 at 8:52pm

I was more than happy to get behing Google+ as a potential Facebook killer when it started but I really think its window for ascension has closed and it's only a matter of time until the plug is pulled.

Some excellent points in this thread, thanks. Need to go find out what an "incognito Chrome window" is . . .

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Permalink Reply by mike w. on December 14, 2011 at 9:27pm

Facewhat?

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Permalink Reply by Garth Liebhaber on December 14, 2011 at 10:24pm

I remember Friendster. I remember a friend trying to get me on there. She moved to S. America.

I remember the first time I went to a bar: all of my old I hadn't seen in a while were there.

Personally, I don't think Facebook is for real. A glib hoax.

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Permalink Reply by Mary Ralph on December 15, 2011 at 12:28am

agreed. while google has done a great job of improving on and then completely dominating certain arenas (search engine, email, mapping, etc), they just really can't figure out social networking. while each had their own identities, google+ is essentially their third attempt (in a mere two years!) to beat facebook at its own game. i think google+ will soon join google wave and google buzz.

also, i'd question how much those 40 million "users" are actually USING google+. anyone with a gmail account is a google+ user. i have a google+ account but i've literally never posted a thing, and only one of my friends took to it. compare that to hundreds of facebook friends..
h' said:

I was more than happy to get behing Google+ as a potential Facebook killer when it started but I really think its window for ascension has closed and it's only a matter of time until the plug is pulled.

Some excellent points in this thread, thanks. Need to go find out what an "incognito Chrome window" is . . .

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Permalink Reply by James BlackHeron on December 15, 2011 at 6:21am

People are using G+

They are doing it in private circles. Most people, like me, don't make many public posts. This gives the nay-sayers to posit that the users aren't using it.

And don't forget that Google owns YouTube and if they want/need to, they will convert it to G+and every Youtuber will need to use G+ to continue to be able to post comments. 490 million users is nothing to scoff at. Once they are in the system they will eventually bleed over onto the G+ general site. Gmail users are already being assimilated in this same way.

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Permalink Reply by Tony Adams 6.6 mi on December 15, 2011 at 9:21am

I don't trust Google much more than I trust Facebook, which is not at all.

I do see the value of social networking though - which puts me in a tough spot. All the providers suck in one way or another. I hope that the decentralized distributed social networking thing eventually (mostly) replaces the proprietary corporate owned social networks.

see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_social_network